Tonight is the night that stoner metal band Borracho celebrates the release of their 7″ Mob Gathering. The Velvet Lounge hosts the kickoff show of a short tour with Been Obscure from Austria and SuperVoid from Pittsburgh. Here’s another loud & proud video from their 2009 album Splitting Sky, for the lead-off single Concentric Circles.
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Mission South – Patagonia (Blue Light Sessions)
Bluesy rockers Mission South just posted a stream of their new song Peaches, the first track from their upcoming EP Migration Vol. 2 that drops April 9th.
The band is currently touring the east coast, and this Saturday night they play a hometown show at Velvet Lounge with fantastic local openers The North Country and Linsay Deming from the band Sweetbread Jim’s. Our music video of the day comes from the Blue Light Sessions series from Pick-Up Productions, a live take of Mission South performing Patagonia from their FREE debut EP Migration Vol. 1.
This Weekend in Live DC Music
There are so many great shows this weekend to tell you about, and all are well worth your money and time!
Friday:
**HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION** DC Music Download‘s First Birthday Party @ Rock & Roll Hotel feat. Paperhaus, The Silver Liners, Drop Electric & The North Country
The Beanstalk Library, Molly Hagen & These Future Saints @ Iota
Black Checker, Dot Dash and The Way Home @ Velvet Lounge
Jonny Grave @ The Hamilton (10:30 PM FREE SHOW!)
Midnight Hike, The Thiefs & Matt Tarka @ DC9
Albino Rhino & Harmonic Blue @ Blue Banana
Saturday:
Ugly Purple Sweater, Fire & The Wheel and The NRIs @ Velvet Lounge
Justin Jones, Rachel Kate & Wheelie @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Sunday:
Black Masala @ Brixton (FREE!)
Deathfix @ Black Cat Backstage
The Flying Mighty, Hurlebaus, Ladle Fight & Ginger Chimes @ Fillmore Silver Spring (Local, Lucky, & Live!)
Wheelie – I Been Lovin video
Saturday night the Rock & Roll Hotel hosts the hometown stop of troubador Justin Jones‘s month long tour. Kicking off the show is Rachel Kate and new synthrock (is that a genre?) band Wheelie. These guys are creating an original sound with soulful vocals, snazzy keys, handclaps and an offbeat sense of style. Definitely worth showing up early to catch their live set!
Music Still Happens Here Vol. 2 tonight @ Iota
DC, we’re about to be crushed by tons of wet snow overnight, so getting out of your house tonight is practically mandatory. The release party for Music Still Happens Here Vol. 2 at Iota wins the best show of the night tonight. Music Still Happens Here is a project helmed by local musician Derek Evry, promoting the deep well of songwriting talent we’re fortunate to have in DC. Tonight’s show at Iota has literally the most insanely ambitious lineup I’ve ever seen:
7:00PM – Tom McBride
7:10PM – Derek Anderson
7:20PM – Gideon Grove
7:30PM – Matt Tarka
7:45PM – Chester Copperpott
8:00PM – Ted Hovis & The Stolen Camaros
8:15PM – Sweet Interference
8:30PM – Brittany Jean
8:45PM – The Stick Mob
9:00PM – Brian Franke
9:15PM – Sara Davenport
9:30PM – Wes Tucker & The Skillets
9:45PM – Pigs From a Gun
10:00PM – Carolyn Crysdale
10:15PM – Mud Rey
10:30PM – A Papier Mache Monster
10:45PM – Norman Rockwell
11:00PM – Derek Evry & His Band of Misanthropes
Come out to Clarendon tonight to grab your free copy of the new compilation CD, meet a new songwriter or two, drink up and sleep off your hangover during tomorrow’s snow day. Plus wish the main man Derek Evry a happy birthday!
Midnight Hike – Good Good Time video
Rock band Midnight Hike are the proud parents of a newborn music video, just released yesterday, from their second full length album Shoot The Moon. This band has shared the stage with Cheap Trick and Blue Oyster Cult, and your next opportunity to see them up close comes next Friday night March 15th at DC9. Hopefully they will bring their costumes.
Lorelei – Hole Punch video
Slumberland Records stalwarts Lorelei released a new music video last week for Hole Punch, from their 2012 album Enterprising Sidewalks, produced by Lorelei guitarist Matt Dingee and Dan Searing from Slumberland bands Whorl and The Saturday People. If you’ve somehow missed seeing these guys play live, don’t miss their next local gig at Sasha Lord’s Comet Ping Pong with Sea Lions and Golden Grrrls on April 5th.
GEMS – Pegasus video
Dream pop duo GEMS just released a new music video for their not-yet-for-sale single Pegasus. It’s black & white, gauzy, melancholy and beautiful, just what you want out of your modern dream pop music. GEMS doesn’t sound quite like any other band in DC, and to my ears that’s a great thing. They’ll be playing a show at the Rock & Roll Hotel next Wednesday March 6th to warm up for making new fans at SXSW.
Can you believe I wrote an entire post without mentioning they used to be called Birdlips? Oops, damnit.
Tom Goss – Can’t Hold Us video
It’s not often that you see a well-produced music video of a live performance. When bands do appear in their videos, almost always they lip sync to the pre-recorded track. For his latest video, just released today, singer Tom Goss performed an acoustic cover of Macklemore’s song Can’t Hold Us, and the video shows how he uses loop pedals to layer the music together, freeing him up for an impressive rapping performance. Catch Tom live at the Dunes this Thursday with Eric Himan as he sets out on tour.
Drop Electric – Baku Hatsu (Blue Light Sessions)
The Mansion at Strathmore’s Friday Night Eclectic series continues its winning streak with a headlining set by sonic architects Drop Electric, joined by local openers Whales and Rajna and Anjna Swaminathan with Sam McCormally of Ugly Purple Sweater. Advance tix are long gone but show up early with $12 cash and you can hopefully make it in. Drop Electric have steadily improved their live performance over many shows, and new material is slowly emerging from the large ensemble. Last December Drop Electric stopped by the studios of Pick-Up Productions to film a new song Baku Hatsu for their Blue Light Sessions live performance series, with face paint, projected visuals and multiple violinists.
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